** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t make these .vmx changes in your environment as it is not supported! ** Yesterday I showed how to recover from a vShield App crash. Now bare in mind that this scenario is very rare. Today I decided to lock down my environment to the level where it was impossible to login [...]

I was playing around with vShield App and I locked out my vCenter VM which happened to be hosted on the cluster which was protected by vShield App. Yes I know that it is not recommended, but I have a limited amount of compute resources in my lab and I can’t spare a full server just for vCenter so I [...]

I started diving in to vShield App and one thing that I like about vShield App is that it allows you to use different types of objects to apply your policies to. Never really put too much thought in to it, but considering the world is more and more changing to policy based management this fits right in. I just [...]

I was reading Richard Garsthagen’s article about anti-virus solutions yesterday and decided that this deserved a little bit of extra attention as it is an often overlooked area when it comes to architecture and impact. As Richard points out the difference in terms of load that it generates and overhead is enormous. All of these combined will most definitely result [...]

For those looking into deploying vCloud Director (vCD), VMware just published a white paper titled “VMware vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide”. I reviewed the document a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good read! Download: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pdf Description The VMware® vCloud™ Director Security Hardening Guide helps users who are embarking into the journey of cloud computing understand [...]

As many of you already know there is an issue with the encryption mechanism of ESX(i) 4.1. When passwords are used which are longer than 8 characters the password will be truncated after the 8th character. As such during authentication only the first 8 characters are used. In other words if you have  a 10 character password you will only need to [...]

During VMware Tech Summit last week one of the few Labs I did get to do myself was the Hytrust Lab. Roughly a year ago I first got introduced to Hytrust. Hytrust is a policy driven appliance which enhances security and auditing for virtualized environments. Although I had seen multiple demos I had never actually played around with it. I [...]